GO MILEY!!! MILEY CYRUS LAUNCHES ANTI-HOMELESSNESS, PRO-LGBT ‘HAPPY HIPPIE FOUNDATION’“Miley Cyrus c

GO MILEY!!! MILEY CYRUS LAUNCHES ANTI-HOMELESSNESS, PRO-LGBT ‘HAPPY HIPPIE FOUNDATION’“Miley Cyrus can’t cross the street without causing a controversy, but at 22 years old, the megastar tells Out she’s finally figured out how to enjoy having it all. “I’ve experienced fame, and money, and all that shit—and none of it will make you as happy as when you’re actually fighting for something.”Last year, she sent a young man named Jesse on stage to accept an MTV award on her behalf. He, in turn, took the Moon Man in honor of “the 1.6 million runaways and homeless youth in the United States who are starving, lost and scared for their lives right now” and pointed viewers to Miley’s Facebook to donate money to My Friend’s Place, the Los Angeles organization that had introduced Miley to Jesse earlier that week. They raised more than $200,000 in 24 hours.It was a dramatic and unexpectedly complicated effort to bring attention to a worthy cause—and when the exposure brought Jesse legal troubles in the form of an old, outstanding warrant, Miley stood by him, tweeting: “People who are homeless have lived very hard lives. Jesse included.” She also promised her 47 million Facebook fans that this commitment to fighting homelessness among youth, especially among LGBT teens, was “just the beginning for me.”“All these things that I do get all this attention,” she tells Out. “But then what do I do once I have everyone’s attention?”Not content with single-night stunts, today she’s officially launching the Happy Hippie Foundation, a non-profit that “rallies young people to fight injustice,” with a series of exclusive “Backyard Sessions” shot at her own house, including performances with Ariana Grande, Laura Jane Grace (the singer of punk band Against Me), Joan Jett and Melanie Sefka. Facebook videos of the songs will prompt viewers to donate, and the funds will be used to help create digital support groups for vulnerable kids and their families—an attempt to help prevent some of the 40 percent of homeless youth who identify as LGBT from being rejected and running away in the first place. “I’m fighting for people I don’t know,” she says, “but it’s also a fight for people I do know, and people I’m close to and love.”Miley says she already spent a lot of time struggling with traditional gender expectations—and being resentful that she was a girl. “I didn’t want to be a boy,” she clarifies. “I kind of wanted to be nothing. I don’t relate to what people would say defines a girl or a boy, and I think that’s what I had to understand: Being a girl isn’t what I hate, it’s the box that I get put into.” Read the full piece herePhotography by Sue KwonGO MILEY!! WELL DONE!!  -- source link

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